Chromatic

Photographing Toronto and beyond in colour. Affiliated with @monochromaticTO. Unless otherwise specified and except for RTs, posted photographs are mine.

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The Photograph Shoppe is open. Find out more from my blog. https://t.co/eIlXlNQw9n

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@thefernandocz @grok Did Elon Musk fire Agrawal unjustly?

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@JG__II @dvdaltizer @evanvucci As a photographer, I can tell you that, yes, you do care about composition. Through practice and experience from thousands and thousands of events, where you take hundreds if not thousands of photos at each, you learn to compose fast. Preparation. Preparation. Preparation.

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@ElonMNews Yes.

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#GoCanadaGo
If Brazil can be knocked off, why not Argentina?

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@durreadan01 @tyleo_dev Actually, Apple would tell you that everything has to be useful. Form follows function.

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@lakshyalark It has improved by leaps and bounds in Canada. I no longer use Google Maps.

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@ylecun @LauraDarli31323 🎤 drop …

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@dk_BTDT @MKBHD This is classic Apple playing the long game.

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@madmath @stevesi What’s brilliant about @stevesi’s take is that it doesn’t matter who pays or doesn’t pay.

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@Adobe Don’t clarify your terms. Change them to be clearer and directly representative of your intent. You are going to lose customers over this if you don’t.

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My opinion of @elonmusk
I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system.
I also like his positions on open source and patents.

But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues.

I disagree with how he treats his scientists.
Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever.
Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort.

I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great.
But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).

More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare.
Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media.

Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...).
One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth.

This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype.
He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions).
Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too.
Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

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@AlanRLight @perezlinaza @ylecun That has not been true for a long time.

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@perezlinaza @ylecun That’s not really true. Many engineers do research. Many scientists put research into practice.

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I have photographed marathons in Toronto in past years. This year, for the first time, I was an accredited photographer.
https://t.co/Tff3YolQW9

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@ArthurS18962489 @georgebell Indeed.

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@saradietschy Photography is my third career. Each of the previous two was fulfilling and provides a rich background for my photography journey.

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@tlepera1 @DamoSpin Core 4 will naturally drop to 3 in one year even without trading Marner. We can’t wait … one year?

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@jmwilt21 The thing is … Apple doesn’t design what people ask for.

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@sunsetx @jmwilt21 Apple sells more iPads than Macs, and more iPads than most companies sell computers. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@LeakerApple @jmwilt21 It’s not about strength; it’s about stiffness.